Two points of view...some readers love this and others not! This reader feels different points of view add richness and complexity to a novel. Jessie Burton's novel
The Muse, is a smart blend of literary and commercial
fiction with intriguing characters and a mystery at its
center. In 1967 London, Odelle Bastien, a Trinidadian émigré with
literary aspirations, begins dating a man who inherited an unusual
portrait of two girls from his late mother. Its discovery excites and
shocks Odelle's employers at the Skelton Institute of Art, since few
works by the painter Isaac Robles, who vanished during
the Spanish Civil War, are known to exist. In 1936 Andalusia, Isaac and
his half sister, Teresa, become involved with the wealthy Schloss
family, who are renting a nearby villa. Olive Schloss keeps secret her own painting from her family who are sure to disapprove. The two plots twine together in unexpected ways. A good read. ML
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